This vomerine tooth was found by Dr. D. R. Kannemeyer when resident at Burghersdorp. It is the only evidence of the dentition of the animal known, and is interesting as being of much larger size than any Labyrinthodont teeth hitherto found in South Africa, though smaller than the large teeth of Mastodonsaurus giganteus from the Keuper of Würtemburg. Its presumed position on the palate is based upon the anchylosis of the tooth with a bone which shows a flat oblique suture at the base of the crown. This sutural surface is usual on vomerine teeth, and indicates that the tooth was directed downward, outward, and a little backward.

For some years past the troops encamped at Bovington had to be content with such water as was supplied by a well a few hundred yards to the S.S.E. of the recently excavated borehole. The following particulars have been gathered respecting this well, but I cannot guarantee that in all respects they are strictly accurate. It was sunk in the Bagshot Beds about 1899, and is said to be 87 feet deep; the water-level stands at 82 feet from the surface, and the yield is 360 gallons per hour. The same Bagshot water-level was struck in the borehole. On comparing these two water-levels it is found that the one in the borehole stands at 85 feet above Ordnance Datum, whilst that in the well stands at 73 feet above O.D. This difference of 12 feet in a horizontal distance of 450 feet amounts to 1 in 37·5, showing a dip in the Bagshot Beds of 1½° to the S.S.E. This may not exactly represent the direction of maximum dip, but there are good reasons for believing that the line of maximum dip of the Bagshots hereabouts is not far from S.S.E.

A few fossil reptilian bones discovered by Dr. Jango Fischer in 1902 at Santa Maria da Bocca do Monte (Serrito) in the Rio Grande do Sul, which have been submitted to me by Dr. H. von Ihering (San Paulo Museum), are of much interest. They not only appear to determine the geological age of the formation from which they were obtained, but also foreshadow the discovery of an early Mesozoic South American land fauna, which has long been expected.

Amongst the foreign Jurassic fossils in the Sedgwick Museum, acquired or presented many years ago and but rarely referred to, some specimens labelled “Himalayan Lias” recently came under my notice. They were marked as having been presented by Mr. J. Leckenby in 1872, and had been carefully kept together with the old label, giving the locality and history. Some of them had at some subsequent date been mounted and identified with well - known European Liassic species.

During an investigation of the rocks of North-West Carnarvonshire older than the Llanberis Slates, the detailed results of which I hope soon to publish, I have discovered certain exposures of quartz-felsite which are not marked as such on the maps of the Geological Ordnance Survey, nor have been described, as far as I know, by other observers.

The Swedish Magellanic Expedition spent some time in the Falkland Islands before proceeding to Tierra del Fuego, where important work is being carried on. The writer utilised his stay in the Falklands to study the geology and collect fossils. The following is a brief note of the work there.

The sample analysed was derived from a well-boring made at East Ham by Messrs. C. Isler & Co., who gave the following table of the strata passed through:—

The sample was taken from the stratum of clay between 17 and 76 feet below the surface.

Early in 1904, whilst spending a holiday at Silverdale, near Carnforth, I noticed at the roadside near the Silverdale Hotel several heaps of a peculiar mottled limestone which was being broken up for road-metal. The resemblance to specimens I had seen from Derbyshire struck me at once, and I was not long in locating the quarry from which the material had been derived. The exposure of the rock is situated near the turn of an old cart track leading from Silverdale Green to Burton Well. When I visited the place there was a section visible of about 12 to 14 feet long and 2 to 3 feet deep. On the top was a thin layer of surface soil with vegetation on it. The floor of the quarry was also of the same mottled limestone. The strata here and in the immediate neighbourhood are rolling with a general dip of 10° E.